SOLO of the Month #23 - Chat

Antique_Guitars

This is the 23rd SOLO of the Month (SotM) Challenge, being run by @Antique_Guitars and @TTony. 

We give you a new backing track to solo over every month. The backing track will be a maximum of 1.5mins long. 

You download the track from our soundcloud page, record your solo over the top of it and then submit it to us.

 
Challenge #23 is now open, and remains open for submissions until 24th January. 

Voting opens on the 25th of the month, and closes on the last day of the month when the winner will be announced.

Here is this months backing track (you can download it from soundcloud) 

Specs: prepared by @Teetonetal ;;

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/backing-track-2?in=thefretboard/sets/solo-of-the-month-backing

Send your tracks to solos@theFB.co.uk 

The tracks will be uploaded to our SoundCloud account and saved in a playlist that will be linked below

https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/sotm-23-2017-01

stratman3142

Interesting backing track. It will be fun to find a solo for this one.

@Antique_Guitars the format is M4a which won't play in Reaper. I think I can convert it to mp3 but I thought I'd let you know just in case others have problems.

Antique_Guitars

Ah ok fair point, lets see, if other have problems I can re upload.

markv

It plays fine in REAPER (v5.311) on the Mac (OSX 10.12.2). I don't recall installing anything specific to make it work.

Importing into Audacity and exporting as an MP3 also works fine.

stratman3142

markv said:

It plays fine in REAPER (v5.311) on the Mac (OSX 10.12.2). I don't recall installing anything specific to make it work.

Importing into Audacity and exporting as an MP3 also works fine.

Perhaps it's because I'm using Windows 10.

I did a bit of Googling and there's a simple fix. Simply renaming the file extension as mp4 instead of m4a makes it work in Reaper.

Bellycaster

That's a groovy backing tack, look forward to this one.

Teetonetal

Am I allowed to enter?

markv

Teetonetal said:

Am I allowed to enter?

I don't see why not. I wouldn't have said that creating the backing track gives you an "unfair advantage" or anything. I'm always interested to hear your solos.

Teetonetal

markv said:

Teetonetal said:

Am I allowed to enter?

I don't see why not. I wouldn't have said that creating the backing track gives you an "unfair advantage" or anything. I'm always interested to hear your solos.

Well I'll submit one anyway Just it occurred to me that on the last couple the submitter didn't take part.

Antique_Guitars

Teetonetal said:

Am I allowed to enter?

Of course darling.

I think previously other submitters of the backing tracks just chose not to enter.

Bellycaster

If anyone is struggling importing the m4a file into cubase, as I was, you can convert it very quickly on a site called media.io

I Googled m4a to mp3 it was the first result on page 1

stratman3142

Having had chance to get my ear around it I have to say the chords are great.

Teetonetal

Hmm did I submit this as m4a? It was supposed to export as mp3.

Bellycaster

Sent In.

stratman3142

Sent mine in.

@Antique_Guitars ; I got a strange mail delivery failure message (see below). I sent it to 'solos@theFB.co.uk' but the delivery failure message references a different email address. I think this is a similar message to the one that @mellowsun got for the RawRotm entry.

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error.

The following address failed:

<otms@thefb.co.uk>

Antique_Guitars

stratman3142 said:

Sent mine in.

@Antique_Guitars ; I got a strange mail delivery failure message (see below). I sent it to 'solos@theFB.co.uk' but the delivery failure message references a different email address. I think this is a similar message to the one that @mellowsun got for the RawRotm entry.

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error.

The following address failed:

<otms@thefb.co.uk>

Hmm well I always still receive them @TTony any ideas my darling? 

TTony

I'll check that email addy to make sure it's still working ...

Teetonetal

Right, sent in. Not massively happy with this one. But I shoe horned some slide in, which is nice and got a nice

Rowby1

Done mine this evening. Going to check it over with a fresh pair of ears tomorrow night and send it in. 

markv

Eeek running out of time!

In my defence we're having our kitchen done and my music room is a makeshift larder/store room. All my outboard kit is packed away and so this month I'm going to do everything in the box - a new thing for me. Might struggle to meet the "usual standards" ...

Rowby1

Mines in.

Changed my mind on what I was doing with this several times before settling on this approach. Still unsure if I've gone the right way but hey, I've had fun trying different ideas out